TheBody.com article on The World AIDS Museum

Before 2014, there were zero museums dedicated to documenting and remembering the 39 million people worldwide that have died thus far due to AIDS-related causes. That changed on May 15 with the opening of the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center in Wilton Manors, Florida.

“This is the only place dedicated to the 39 million who have died of AIDS,” said Ed Sparan, director of the museum. “It’s also a place to enlighten, educate and empower.”

Sparan hopes the museum will help visitors to think about HIV not just as a part of LGBT history, but human history. “The story of HIV has been part of the LGBT story, but it’s so much more than that,” Sparan said. “In the past 35 years of HIV/AIDS, 75 million people have been infected, and 39 million people have died of AIDS.”